SEN. JOE MANCHIN MAY NOT BE KINGMAKER IN WEST VIRGINIA FOR LONG
Dozens of Democratic insurgents flipped the script on the old guard of the state party.
Daniel Boguslaw
June 30 2022, 6:00 a.m.

FOR DECADES, Sen. Joe Manchin has presided over West Virginia’s Democratic Party, crowning candidates and throwing cushy appointments to allies while the state’s jobs, wages, and environment have gradually been ground to dust. But earlier this month, a grassroots slate of over 50 Democrats took control of the West Virginia Democratic Party after winning a majority of seats on the executive committee and ousting party leadership, thus ending Manchin’s de facto control of the state party apparatus.

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